• sab@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I can’t think of any successful implementation of socialism following from voting alone. Unionising tends to be where the power comes from.

    The historical success rate of overthrowing the government and replacing it with something more ideologically pure doesn’t really inspire confidence either. Sometimes it might be a necessary step on the winding path of history, but in terms of making anything better in the short term the track record is a bit iffy at best.

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      1 year ago

      Does public ownership and maintenance of infrastructure count as socialism? If so, that definitely happened.

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        1 year ago

        Which countries do not have public ownership and maintenance of infrastructure?

        And no that isn’t socialism.